Using cURL to Post Updates to Twitter
Sunday, April 8th, 2007Heres a small snippet of code I found that will successfully post updates to your Twitter account:
curl --basic --user username:password --data status="Having fun with cURL" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
The command ‘curl’ is normally present on most Linux distro’s these days. Windows users will need to Google and download it. To use the code above simply replace ‘username:password’ with your real ‘username:password‘, the string of status in double quotes is the update that will actually appear on your Twitter page. The url present at the end of the code is the Twitter API endpoint.
Twitter will reply with a response similar to the following:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<status>
<created_at>Sun Apr 08 01:25:56 +0000 2007</created_at>
<id>12345xxx</id>
<text>Having fun with cURL</text>
<user>
<id>xxxxxxx</id>
<name>Your Name</name>
<screen_name>your_username</screen_name>
<location></location>
<description></description>
<profile_image_url>[removed]</profile_image_url>
<url></url>
<protected>true</protected>
</user>
</status>
Note: I have replaced specific numbers with ‘x’s.
